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The plague itself is here particularly foretold, Ex 11:4-6. The time is fixed--about midnight, the very next midnight, the dead time of the night; when they were all asleep, all their first-born should sleep the sleep of death, not silently and insensibly, so as not to be discovered till morning, but so as to rouse the families at midnight to stand by and see them die. The extent of this plague is described, Ex 11:5. The prince that was to succeed in the throne was not too high to be reached by it, nor were the slaves at the mill too low to be taken notice of. Moses and Aaron were not ordered to summon this plague; no I will go out, saith the Lord, Ex 11:4. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God; what is hell but this?
6 And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such
as there was none like it, nor shall be like it any more.
7 But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his
tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that the Lord doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.
The special protection which the children of Israel should be under, and the manifest difference that should be put between them and the Egyptians. While angels drew their swords against the Egyptians, there should not so much as a dog bark at any of the children of Israel, Ex 11:7. An earnest was hereby given of the difference which shall be put in the great day between God's people and his enemies: did men know what a difference God puts, and will put to eternity, between those that serve him and those that serve him not, religion would not seem to them such an indifferent thing as they make it, nor would they act in it with so much indifference as they do.
8 And all these thy servants shall come down unto me, and bow
down themselves unto me, saying, Get thee out, and all the people that follow thee: and after that I will go out. And he went out from Pharaoh in a great anger.
The humble submission which Pharaoh's servants should make to Moses, and how submissively they should request